John Wesley READ

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Willliam was the oldest of 11 children. He was in the Civil War as a Confederate cavalry soldier, and was one of Morgan's Raiders. He was captured on the Ohio River and was a prisoner of war at Camp Morton, near Indianapolis, and then sent on to Camp Douglass on the south side of Chicago. Amanda bore him three sons, with descendants from the two elder boys and the youngest son was alive through 1880, where further info on him cannot be found yet. Amanda died in 1864, six months before her husband was paroled by the Yankees, leaving her three sons as wards of her father-in-law. Her husband remarried five years after her death, but he had no other children. (Info from Linda Chesser of Indiana)

William married Margaret Amanda MORRIS on 20 Mar 1851 in Davidson County, Tennessee. Margaret (daughter of Corporal Isaac E. MORRIS and Celestia (Calista) Goldsberry CARNEY) was born about 1833 in Davidson County, Tennessee; died on 18 Dec 1864 in Gallatin, Sumner Co., Tennessee; was buried in Nashville, City Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Linda Read Chesser:
Full name as shown on her Davidson Co. TN marriage certificate dated 20 Mar 1851 is Margaret Amanda Morris. The bondsman for William Benjamin Read 1829-1904 and their marriage was Opie Pope, for whom William's youngest brother Opie Pope Read 1852 TN-1939 IL, author, actor and humorist, was named. William Benjamin Read's father was Gilford Read 1803 NC-1883 TN. Two of his uncles were David Benjamin Read 1799 NC-1872 TN and Lunsford L. Read 1804 NC-1850 TN.

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Notes contributed by Linda Read Chesser:

I have carefully transcribed the Bible belonging to Guilford Dudley and Elizabeth (Wallace) Read. They were married in Davidson County TN in 1826, where all eleven of their children were born. Their oldest son, William Benjamin Read (1829-1904), served in the CSA as a cavalry soldier in Ward's 9th at the Battle of Hartsville and rode with General Morgan. He was captured in 1863, on the Ohio and imprisoned at Camps Morton (Indianapolis) and Douglass (Chicago). Released in June 1865, he came home to find his wife had died 6 months before, leaving his three sons as guardians of Guilford Read Sr. The families moved to Sumner County after the Civil War, first residing in Gallatin and then moving to land southwest of Richland Station (now Portland). Their youngest son was Opie Pope Read (1852-1939), American Novelist and Humorist, who studied at Neophogen College in Gallatin, founded The Arkansas Traveler in Little Rock and was author of 57 books and numerous short stories. He had met Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) on the Chautauqua circuit and later would travel that road himself. He wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and worked until his death for a paper in Chicago. Portland's Elmer Hinton Public Library has a portrait of Opie Read and a few of his novels on display.
The Guilford Dudley and Elizabeth (Wallace) Read Bible
(c. 1810 written on inside cover and first seven chapters of Genesis missing.)
Signature on last page: Mrs. Elizabeth Read
Transcribed by Linda Read Chesser, 3rd great-granddaughter of Guilford and Elizabeth Read, the 28 day January 2002
This is a large Bible approx. 10 by 12 inches and 3 inches thick. The center of the Bible between Testaments is now loose and tucked in. Everything was copied exactly by the transcriber, including misspellings, spelling variations, and grammatical errors.
P. 1 Parents' Record
Father
Guilford Read was born December the 9 1803
Elizabeth Read the wife of Gilford Read was born
Febuary the 8 1812
Mother
Gilford Read and Elizabeth Wallace
was married January
the 18 day 1825
P. 2 Marriages
This is my grand Children
John Wasly Read was
Born November the
27 day 1851
(Transcriber's Note: Wesley is the middle name.)
William Olever Read
was born October the
18 day 1853
(Transcriber's Note: Oliver is the middle name.)
Gilford Dudley Read
was born January
the 26 day 1856
(Transcriber's Note: There are four known Guilford Reads in this family, three with Dudley as their middle name.)
W.B. Read and Mattie An
Hunter was
Married Jan 18
1870
( Transcriber's note: This was William Benjamin's 2nd marriage. He 1st married M. Amanda Morris March 1851 Davidson Co. TN. She died December 1864.)
A total of eleven children were born to Guilford and Elizabeth Wallace Read. It was unnamed and either miscarried or stillborn. Opie Read was the 11th and last child born.
The list of children follows:
Guilford and Elizabeth Wallace Read Bible
P. 3 Births
William Benjamin
Read was born
October the 15 day
1829
James Read was born
Febuary the 12 day
1832
Cordelia An Read was
born October the 5 day
1834
Sara Elizabeth Read
was born June
the 6 day 1837
Gilford Dudley Read
was born Febuary the 18 day 1840
(Transcriber's note: This would be Jr.)
Martha Ollive Read
was born October
the 1 day 1842
Harret Adarene
Read was born January
the 12 1845
Lydia Frances Read
was born August
the 4 day 1847
James Wallace
Read was born June
The 1 day 1850
Opie Pope Read
was born December
the 22 day 1852
(Transcriber's note: This proves that "Percival" was NOT the famous novelist/humorist's middle name. "Pope" is written in his mother's own hand. The Opie Pope family had a business across the street from the Read's carriage shop in Nashville in the 1850's, hence the name. Percival was made up as were many of his stories about the family. See early Business Directories- TSA)
Guilford Dudley and Elizabeth (Wallace) Read Bible
P. 4 Deaths
James Read the son of
Gilford and Elizabeth
Read departed this
life on the 5 day
of October 1833
(Transcriber's Note: After losing this son, they named a later son James. He also died young.)
Sara Elizabeth the dauter
of Gilford and Elizabeth
Read departed this life
January the 11 1847
Lydia France (sic) the dauter
of Gilford and Elizabeth
Read departed this life
June the 20 day 1850
Jimny Wallace the son
Gilford and Elizabeth
Read depart this life
June the 3 day 1852
(Transcriber's Note: This is the 2nd James Read)
Hatty A. Read the
daughter of Gilford
and Elizabeth Read
departed this life May
the 12 day 1868
Cordelia A. Allen the
daughter of Gilford and
Elizabeth Read and
the wife of G W Allen
depart this life
September the 4
day 1869
Transcriber's note: And in another's hand, in purple pencil:
Elizabeth Read Wife
of Gilford Read Dep
arted this Life
May 4th 1891 (continued)
Guilford and Elizabeth Wallace Read Bible
P. 4 Deaths continued,
Gilford Read the
husban of Elisabthe (sic)
Read
departed this
life Decembier
the 18 day 1883
P. 5 Deaths (Transcriber's Note: On the back of the printed pictures just before the New Testament written in pencil:)
Mattie A. Read
Wife of W.B. Read
Departed this Life
July 23th 1904
W.B. Read, Husband
of Mattie A. Read Departed
this life October 1th 1904
W.O. Read departed this life
On the 26 day of Aug 1916.
Alice Wallace departed the
( )day of Feb 1916.
(Transcribers Note: There is a space left before "day".)
(End of record. Additional loose records left in the Bible will be transcribed at a later date.) L.R.C.)

Guilford married Elizabeth WALLACE on 18 Jan 1825 in Davidson County, Tennessee. Elizabeth was born on 8 Feb 1812; died in 1891 in Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Corporal Isaac E. Morris d. 03 Sep 1836 in the Second Seminole War at Ft. Brooke, near Tampa Bay, Florida. He is listed as born in Virginia or South Carolina, both which were answers in various censuses given by his son John Robert Morris Sr. b. 1827 TN

Per: Linda Chesser
Email: [email protected]

Parents supplied by Merry Anne; maptfs, Nashville Tennessee (Ancestry Profile);
"From my research, Isaac E Morris was born ca 1800 in TN. His mother was Mary Elizabeth Earthman who married Andrew Morris 24 Dec 1799 in Davidson CO, TN. Her father was Isaac Earthman Jr born ca 1749 prob. Bucks Co, PA died in 1834 in Davidson Co, TN a Rev. War Soldier. His will names his daughter "Betsy's" children, but not by name. But court records indicate there were at least two, Isaac E whose widow was Calista Carney and Peter B. who married Nancy Marlin.Peter and Isaac owned property together and were involved in several cases of slave sales related to the Earthman will. When Isaac died, Peter sold his share of property jointly owned to his sister - in- law, Calista. Peter died in 1855 after serving the county for many years as a Justice of the Peace. He had 5 living children. I can only locate the son, Isaac Taylor Morris. I'm trying to locate the others. And would like to find Andrew Morris's parents."

Isaac married Celestia (Calista) Goldsberry CARNEY on 2 Feb 1826 in Davidson County, Tennessee. Celestia (daughter of Elijah CARNEY and Elizabeth Seale GOLDSBERRY) was born about 1807 in Davidson County, Tennessee; died in 1862 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Per Linda Chesser ([email protected]), 11 Dec 2006, Calista middle name was Goldsberry.

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Andrew married Mary Elizabeth EARTHMAN on 24 Dec 1799 in Davidson County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Isaac EARTHMAN) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Davidson, Tennessee

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Found in 1850 census, aged 79. - confirm birthplace.
#191 Carney, Elij79abt 1771WhiteMaleNorth Carolina
Living next door to son John B.G. Carney and wife Catherine
192CarneyJohn40abt 1810WhiteMaleTennessee
192CarneyCatherine35abt 1815WhiteFemaleTennessee
192CarneyCatherine14abt 1836WhiteFemaleTennessee
192CarneyJ R12abt 1838WhiteMaleTennessee
192CarneyChatista10abt 1840WhiteFemaleTennessee

ALSO living along side of brother Elijah McHenry Carney and family.

At the Metropolitan Davidson County (Tennessee) there is what looks like an original book entitled Register of Interments in Nashville City Cemetery on page 14 #1245 is ELIJAH CARNEY, 74, white male, city, died of pneumonia, Poplar Street Lot. (I don't know the year - it may not have been there). There is probably no headstone for him - many don't have any. There are a few Mayos who lived in the City buried there."

Land Purchase Robertson County, Tennessee April 2, 1800 Josiah Ramsey to Elijah Carney Recorded July 17, 1800 This Indenture made this 2nd day of April, 1800, between Josiah Ramsey of Robertson County & State of Tennessee, of the one part, and Elijah Carney of the County of Davidson & State of Tennessee of the other part; Witnessath, That the said Josiah Ramsey for and in consideration of the sum of $130.00 to him in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged doth by these presents bargain sell transfer and convey to the said Elijah Carney his heirs and assigns forever, a certain tract or parcel of land lying both sides of Sycamore Creek, containing 100 acres. Beginning at Pinkleys North corner; thence North 31 chains 70 links to a stake; thence East 31 chains 60 links crossing said Creek to a stake; thence South 31 chains 70 links to a stake; thence West 31 chains 60 links to the beginning, being part of the upper end of the tract on which Pinkley lives on. To have and to hold the aforesaid tract or parcel of land with all advantages hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or appertaining to the said Elijah Carney his heirs and assigns forever and the said Josiah Ramsey for himself his heirs and assigns doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Elijah Carney his heirs and assigns that unto him his heirs the land and premises he will warrant and forever defend against all lawful claims. In Witness whereof the said Josiah Ramsey hath hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the day and year first above written. Signed, Josiah Ramsey, with his seal affixed Acknowledged in Court, Test. Thomas Johnson
Per: Alfred Lytton Carney in a taped interview made by Glenda Mae Carney October 23, 1983 "Slaves of Elijah Carney & Elijah McHenry Carney buried in the Carney Family Cemetery on Stenberg Road (Whites Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee) are located in the far point of triangle of land and marked only with piles of limestone. There used to be a fence surrounding the Carney Family Cemetery." Per: Leonard Lawson Carney & Alfred Lytton Carney in a taped interview October 23, 1983 "Pap (their father, Oscar Wayne Carney, Sr.) said that Elijah Carney owned land extending from Simpkins Hollow, along Carney Branch Creek, over hills, past Old Hickory Boulevard. Where John Tyler Carney's log home stood, was originally part of Elijah's land. Elijah's land extended down to old Marrowbone."
Davidson County, Tennessee Court Minutes July 1799 page 20 Isaac Earthman to oversee the Road beginning at the foot of The ridge thence to the head of Long Creek, down said creek about one mile to the tree marked with a large O with all lands above Dry Fork East & West of said Creek To wit: William Smith, JOHN CARNEY, WILLIAM CARNEY, ELIJAH CARNEY...and all taxables in sd bounds. Davidson County, Tennessee Land Transaction Elijah Carney - Grantee from Frederick Stump November 24, 1808 Filed June 06, 1809 G-465 100 acres Whites Creek Davidson County, Tennessee Land Transaction Elijah Carney - from John Wright April 16, 1832 Filed December 4, 1832 V33 94 acres Whites Creek IMFORMATION ON THE DESCENDANTS OF ELIJAH CARNEY SUPPLIED BY GLENDA CROSS. PLACES OF RESIDENCE:N.C.,DAVIDSON COUNTY,TENNESSEE. ELIJAH AND ELIZABETH ARE BOTH PROBABLY BURIED IN THE CARNEY FAMILY CEMETERY ON STENBERG ROAD IN WHITE'S CREEK. DRY FORK WAS OLD NAME FOR COMMUNITY NOW KNOWN AS WHITE'S CREEK.
1812: ELIJAH WAS A MEMBER OF CAPTAIN ROGER'S OLD MILITIA COMPANY, #1845 24-FEB-91:JAMES W. HAWKINS GIVE BIRTHPLACE AS IRELAND

Elijah married Elizabeth Seale GOLDSBERRY on 22 May 1806 in Davidson County, Tennessee. Elizabeth (daughter of John Baptist GOLDSBERRY and Mary BRUCE) was born about 1773 in Virginia; died about 1835 in Davidson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth is probably buried in the Carney Family Cemetery on Stenberg Road in Whites Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee. Elizabeth appeared on 1830 census in Elijah's household but not on 1840 census; thus it is presumed she died 1830-1840, in what is now known as Whites Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee. Per: Glenda Carney On marriage bond, the Clerk wrote Elizabeth's middle name as "CEALS". Since Elizabeth probably could not read nor write, she was unaware her name had been spelled incorrectly. All subsequent references refer to her as Elizabeth "C." Goldsberry because of the Clerk's error. I am convinced her middle name should have been spelled 'SEALE" because that was the correct spelling of her Paternal Grandmother, ELIZABETH SEALE.